Chose one and motivate why?

Personally I preferred the Expansions of Morrowind , they where big , large and unique , adding more land and content , and verymuch fulfilling and completing of the story .... Bloodmoon and Tribunal where way better than fallout or oblivion expansions ....

Only Shivering isles got closer to what morrowind expansions where like ....

I prefer to have expansions ala Morrowind than else ... plus if they make them very large and long the better.....

and possibly keep a team producing expansions untill the next ES Game ...

I prefer having two or three major expansion packs than lots of little add ons. For TES I don't mind paying for them, especially if Bloodmoon, Tribunal, and Shivering Isles is anything to go by. Little DLC's are nice, but never seem worth it in the long run.

I liked Bloodmoon myself, mainly because of the ability to become a werewolf though, haven't played through either of the Morrowind expansions 100%. I liked how Shivering Isles brought back that the pseudo Alice in Wonderland on crack theme Morrind had going on though.

...Actually, [censored] I still need to kill Dagoth Ur :I

Morrowind. Tribunal was my favorite because it expanded upon the MQ and the history/lore of the Nerevar, Almalexia etc... Had a bit of a nerdgasm when I played it. Bloodmoon was good as far as new features and game play go, but it felt like they just added a bunch of random cool stuff that didn't really have anything to do with the story.

I like the Morrowind type, big and adding lands, preferably the way bloodmoon did.

Morrowind expansion like

Fallout's expansions all took like 5 hours or less each i didn't like that at all there was very little time for character development and plot development so definitly not that.

I have never played Morrowind but you described the expansions as long while opening up a new world.. how did shivering isles not do that it took around 30 hours, and there was an entirely different land with its own characters side quests and storyline. Im a little confused on how that wasn't big enough or in depth enough, personally i thought the shivering isles had a more complex and unique environment than cyrodill.

someone explain how shivering isles wasn't long and didnt open up a new unique land mass

Huh? Nobody said SI didn't do that.

From what the OP said, I think they were referring more to KotN and the official plugins than SI

Old school pc styled expansion packs.

I want actual expansions. Not just add-ons.

Like Bloodmoon, and Tribunal, And Shivering Isles.

Yup. One big expansion, none of this little DLC trash.

I'd much rather have a full expansion like Tribunal/Bloodmoon/Shivering Isles, though I'm not opposed to DLC if it's done right (like Knights of the Nine).

Also, Oblivion had both a traditional expansion pack (Shivering Isles) as well as DLC, so your option in this poll isn't clear on what we're voting exactly.

Oblivion expansions, preferably. A large expansion (Shivering Isles), a medium expansion (Knights of the Nine), and several smaller, but quality ones (All the others. Except maybe horse armor, but that was overpriced rather than crappy).

Morrowind gave us a large (Bloodmoon) and a medium-large one, but several really crappy, really small ones (Area Effect Arrows anyone?), that albeit free, weren't even worth downloading most of the time.

I don't mind little DLC like the Wizard tower, or that one for the Warrior.

But, Horse armor and those tomes were pretty useless so nothing like that.

I'm almost 100% sure they will do it as they did with FO3. DLC's generate much more cash than a large expansion set. Just look at Fallout. Five DLC's sold for 10$ each with far less content than Shivering Isles had in total. And that was sold for 30$. Basically they make almost 4x as much cash as they would with a traditional expansion pack. To me it's a rip-off and I will never pay the full price for a DLC.



I think KotN is just as bad as Horse Armor. It is a completely uninspired quest with almost no new content for a price that is far too high (SI cost 3x as much and has 50x the amount of content). I think most people think it's that great because it was the only DLC that actually offered some gameplay value at all - as opposed to the ridiculous crap the other DLC's were.

Shivering Isles is the only expansion Oblivion recieved, and Fallout 3 didn't get any expansions. What Fallout 3 got is DLC, Knights of the Nine, horse armor and such were DLC, Shivering Isles was an expansion, Tribunal and Bloodmoon were expansions. I suppose technically, you could call the DLC for Oblivion and Fallout 3 "expansions", since they add new content to the game, and therefore expand it, but speaking in game terms, what I think of when I hear the word "expansion" is not that, I tend to think of a large addon that adds a fairly large amount of new content. In the terms of a game like the Elder Scrolls, that would mean adding many new locations, populated by new NPCs and monsters, with many new quests and new items. I suppose Point Lookout sort of has that, but I still found it too small to deserve the name of expansion.

Now that we've got that issue cleared up, of course I prefer expansions to DLC, if I had to choose, I'd take one or two large scale expansions along the lines of Tribunal, Bloodmoon or Shivering Isles over small, short addons any day. The former just offers so much more, and even if you have enough addons to last you for the same length of time as a full length expansion, it's still not going to be as satisfying, because since it's all individual, short addons rather than one large whole, you don't have as much time to go so in-depth on the quests and characters added, and there isn't a consistent direction between all of the addons.

Still, it seems pretty obvious that DLC is here to stay, at this point, but that doesn't mean we can't still have expansions as well as DLC. So I hope Bethesda takes the approach they took with Oblivion this time by offering at least one proper expansion along with their DLC, rather than what they did with Fallout 3, because while as a whole, I felt that Fallout 3's DLC had a higher average quality than Oblivion's, in part, perhaps, because even the first DLC to become available for Fallout 3 at least added a new quest, even if it was a pretty linear one and seemed to be trying to be a generic military shooter that just happens to be set in a retrofuturistic world instead of actually trying to offer more of what the game originally offered, whereas in Oblivion, we got horse armor. Nonetheless, even Point Lookout, which is often considered the best of Fallout 3's addons, still just didn't quite do what a full expansion can. The only DLC for Oblivion, aside from Shivering Isles, I'd really consider worthwhile, is probably Knights of the Nine, and even then, I only got it along with the GOTY addition of the game, along with the original game disk and Shivering Isles, I doubt I'd have bought it seperately had it not been included with the GOTY addition.



While it's true that the downloadable addons for Morrowind were generally pretty basic at best, I think that's a natural result of them being free. After all, as a business, Bethesda can't afford to invest too much time into designing content they're not going to profit from.

The small DLCs were pretty much 'official' mods, nothing that any self respecting modder couldn't do themselves

I'm not saying that the price was right, certainly not if purchased separately, but when obtained through the GotY Deluxe edition available on STEAM it's a great deal. And I think that Mehrunes Razor was also a good DLC.

But yes, most of the other DLC didn't really offer much new content and the price if bought separate doesn't make it a very good deal.

That's why I prefer a full expansion pack, it can offer a lot of content that doesn't feel disjointed at a good price.

Big expansions, no small bits of DLC for me.

Definitely MW-style - they added loads of new content, and whole new worlds - however, it depends on how Skyrim will be as a base - it might also be possible to greatly elaborate on an existing region/situation (for instance, there are two/three/n number of warring factions, initially with RELATIVELY basic quests and tasks. These factions would of course be central to the gameplay (which might not be a good thing in itself, but I digress). An expansion might add a whole new level of depth to one of the conflicts, or the situation in general. The only example I could quote would be how Broken Steel added on to BoS in FO3, but that's not the most detailed example.

But then again, whole new lands rock too.

Agreed.

Morrowind-like, of course. The alternative is just stoopid, at best, and often insulting as well.

Got to agree Shivering Isles Bloodmoon and Point lookout is what we want not Battlehorn and spell tomes. Bigger the better and preferaby adding a whole new flavour to the core game. Too much to hope for Akavir or the shattered remains of Morrowind but something along those lines. Would love to see what Summueset Isle looks like.

2 or more big expansions please ive bought all the expansion to MW and OB and still havent finished them but i wont buy any DLC, not worth the price.